Slides ruled back then

Filed under: ephemera — olivander June 15, 2009 @ 3:23 pm

Nowdays, playground equipment has to be all “safe”.

One half of a 1926 stereograph.

Update: ironically, my kid broke his leg on one of those “safe” slides this weekend.

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  1. My innder child is so jealous. I also like how not only is there a precarious cluster of children near the top of the ladder, but that there are three kids on the slide at the same time. Wowsers.

    Visiting the park with my son this weekend, I tried to go down the slide with him at his behest. Fun fact: modern slides are not made with adult ass in mind.

    Ow.

    Comment by Mike.Speegle — June 15, 2009 @ 5:23 pm

  2. And you’ve gotta love the Dali-esque stilts holding the whole thing up.

    No, modern slides are definitely not built with our adult wide loads in mind. Every time I take my son down the enclosed tornado slide at the playground down the block, I pray that I don’t get stuck in the middle and have to have the fire department extract me with the jaws of life.

    Comment by olivander — June 15, 2009 @ 8:47 pm

  3. Dude, don’t even bring Dali up. The Temptation of St. Anthony gives me friggin’ nightmares.

    My inner child doesn’t want to go on the slide anymore. The seesaw seems like less a cyclopean impressionistic nightmare.

    Comment by Mike.Speegle — June 15, 2009 @ 9:07 pm

  4. ‘Scuse me, I meant “cyclopean surrealist nightmare.”

    Comment by Mike.Speegle — June 15, 2009 @ 9:10 pm

  5. For some reason, I read “Collapsing World/slides ruled” as “Ruined world,” for just a second. And I thought– now that’s a weird change.

    Comment by Strikethru — June 16, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

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